OK, you probably think we're crazy to waste a season (or 2) production from a Pied female to pursue this project, but we really like the Spotnose! The head pattern is cool, but what I really like is the purity of the black in the pattern. Most ball python morphs fade, blush, or wash out the black, but the black on the spotnose is spectacular. We hope that bold black will really add to the contrast in Pieds and maybe get a cool head pattern, too! We bred a male Spotnose to a female Pied in 2009 and backed him up with a male Pied. We ended up with 4 Pieds and 1 Het... Missed on the Spotnose, but it's hard to complain about the 4 Pieds! So in 2010 we decided if we're going to do it, then do it! We dedicated a nice virgin female Pied to the project and hatched 1.1 Spotnose 100% Het Pied and 1.3 regular 100% Het Pieds.